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The Radioactive Substances (Natural Gas) Exemption Order (Northern Ireland) 2003
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1. This Order may be cited as the Radioactive Substances (Natural Gas) Exemption Order (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 28th March 2003.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Order: –
“decay products” means, in relation to any radionuclide, the radionuclides succeeding it in the same radioactive series;
“natural gas” includes liquified petroleum gas;
“specified natural gas” means natural gas which contains radon-222, polonium 210, lead 210, and their decay products in concentrations which do not exceed 10 becquerels per gram for each radionuclide.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Exemption from registration
3. A person who on any premises which is used for the undertaking carried on by him keeps or uses, or causes to be used or permits to be kept or used, specified natural gas or a natural gas product is exempted from registration under Section 7 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 in respect of the keeping and use of that substance on those premises.
Exemption from authorisation
4. Sections 13 and 14 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 shall not apply to a disposal or accumulation of radioactive waste, which is specified natural gas.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 25th February 2003.
L.S.
Judena Goldring
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
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